WASHINGTON — The regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is softening his position against allowing them to cut principal for borrowers at risk of foreclosure.

Acting director Edward DeMarco said in a speech Tuesday that the Federal Housing Finance Agency is considering whether to allow Fannie and Freddie to offer principal reductions. He noted that reductions would lower losses at Fannie and Freddie and help stabilize home prices faster.

Yet DeMarco still says the agency must weigh the reductions against losses to taxpayers, who already have spent $170 billion to bail out the companies. He said fewer than 1 million homeowners would be eligible. A final decision may come this month.

Casey Neistat admits that the logistics of running a business isn’t his speciality. Instead, he shared with Denver Startup Week audiences how he went from high school dropout to an HBO show, a New York Times partnership and later, an app that got started while on a fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Twitter is defending its decision not to remove a controversial tweet by President Donald Trump on Saturday that targeted North Korea, in a six-tweet response to critics who argued that Trump violated the platform’s rules.